Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
2000 book by Peter Ward and Donald E. Brownlee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe is a 2000 popular science book about xenobiology by Peter Ward, a geologist and evolutionary biologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, a cosmologist and astrobiologist. The book is the origin of the term 'Rare Earth Hypothesis' which denotes the central claim of the book: that complex life is rare in the universe.
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Authors | Peter D. Ward Donald E. Brownlee |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Astrobiology |
Publisher | Copernicus |
Publication date | 2000 |
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Pages | 338 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0387952895 |
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